Hi, I was told by someone involved in Debian, that Debian installations with automatic upgrades enabled would have very low probability of having things broken providing that: - Debian stable is used - No external repositories are used
However take that with a grain of salt because I'm not a Debian expert, so I could have misunderstood something. As I understand, Freedombox is Debian pure blend (everything is in Debian). If we forget about hardware issues: - Is the software supposed to be robust enough to be used without maintenance? - Can technical users shoot themselves in the foot by altering configurations like /etc/ssh/sshd (for instance to disable password based logins). Here I assume that such users are capable enough to do modifications that do work, and test them, and I am rather wondering if, with the automatic upgrades it's supposed not to break. Hardware wise microSD are not that reliable[1], but I don't see it as something that cannot be coped with, especially when: - Many of the supported hardware can boot from SPI flash, NAND, or eMMC[2], which are more reliable. - In the worst case scenario, only the bootloader needs to reside on the microSD. References: ----------- [1]"Ultimately, however, every card I’ve encountered eventually corrupts the filesystem after enough cycles, it’s just a matter of how long." from: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2297 [2]- The APU.1D and APU.1D4 boot by default from the SPI flash and can handle SATA HDD/SSD from there. - The BeagleBone black has an eMMC - According to https://linux-sunxi.org, The Cubieboard2, Cubieboard3/Cubietruck, and pcDunino3 all have NAND, so they can most probably boot from it by default, if no microSD is setup for booting. - The OLinuXino A20 LIME, LIME2, MICRO can be bought with optional NAND. Denis.
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